to suede or not to suede...
Posted: 11 Apr 2010, 21:21
here they are, my random thoughts...
Discuss.
After discovering this brilliant band and working really hard on getting my hands on all the stuff available, listening to them constantly for about half an hour, I was so pissed to have missed them. Really. The band was over at that time (2007/2008).
I adored Bretts work and went to his shows whenever I could (I saw – let me think...8 of his acoustic gigs, all over Europe) and I still do – even more now, that he's got three great albums to puzzle setlists together from which are amazing. I prefer his all-solo shows pretty much to the ones where he did suede songs and solo songs mixed.
All was well... well, for a while... Rumours and whispering about suede appeared throughout the year 2009 and it got a little more suspicious than before imo. I didn't rule it out completely. And the the bomb fell:
suede to play a one-off for charity!
I was like “WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? Holy shit, I must see them ! I must be part of it!” I got so excited, listened to suede again constantly. Then there were the Brett shows in January and February... hell, I loved it, this was so outstanding, amazing, adorable, fucking great that I wondered how anyone ever could want suede back, when they can have this. And I got a bit worried. I wanted “my” brett to be that solo-artist he was then, I wanted him to keep all his time, creativity, energy, confidence to himself, for his career. I didn't want him to go back to the music industry (-empress), to be left alone with his set of delicate fans.
Me not being able to go to the RAH show suddenly wasn't the tragedy it used to be anymore. But then, the 100 club gig came onto the schedule – that was different. I knew I could make this and put a lot of effort into achieving it.
And I was there... and it hit my like a hammer, I tumbled out that gig not believing what I witnessed... that band sounded and looked as if the past ten years hadn't existed. And my need for them to go on was revitalised.
Brett could easily do one record each year, if every second or third would be a suede album. This year solo, then suede, then two years solo … you get the point.
I was overwhelmed by the all-overall warm praising reactions, fans and press-wise... and them, too! I think as long as they can have fun with that precious little thing called suede – I'm in!!! and they do have fun!
I considered that thing in March as a test and they passed the test more than well... no I'm curious what happens next!
And as long its not a Tears reunion , I'm fine with it!
Discuss.
After discovering this brilliant band and working really hard on getting my hands on all the stuff available, listening to them constantly for about half an hour, I was so pissed to have missed them. Really. The band was over at that time (2007/2008).
I adored Bretts work and went to his shows whenever I could (I saw – let me think...8 of his acoustic gigs, all over Europe) and I still do – even more now, that he's got three great albums to puzzle setlists together from which are amazing. I prefer his all-solo shows pretty much to the ones where he did suede songs and solo songs mixed.
All was well... well, for a while... Rumours and whispering about suede appeared throughout the year 2009 and it got a little more suspicious than before imo. I didn't rule it out completely. And the the bomb fell:
suede to play a one-off for charity!
I was like “WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? Holy shit, I must see them ! I must be part of it!” I got so excited, listened to suede again constantly. Then there were the Brett shows in January and February... hell, I loved it, this was so outstanding, amazing, adorable, fucking great that I wondered how anyone ever could want suede back, when they can have this. And I got a bit worried. I wanted “my” brett to be that solo-artist he was then, I wanted him to keep all his time, creativity, energy, confidence to himself, for his career. I didn't want him to go back to the music industry (-empress), to be left alone with his set of delicate fans.
Me not being able to go to the RAH show suddenly wasn't the tragedy it used to be anymore. But then, the 100 club gig came onto the schedule – that was different. I knew I could make this and put a lot of effort into achieving it.
And I was there... and it hit my like a hammer, I tumbled out that gig not believing what I witnessed... that band sounded and looked as if the past ten years hadn't existed. And my need for them to go on was revitalised.
Brett could easily do one record each year, if every second or third would be a suede album. This year solo, then suede, then two years solo … you get the point.
I was overwhelmed by the all-overall warm praising reactions, fans and press-wise... and them, too! I think as long as they can have fun with that precious little thing called suede – I'm in!!! and they do have fun!
I considered that thing in March as a test and they passed the test more than well... no I'm curious what happens next!
And as long its not a Tears reunion , I'm fine with it!